Reel for strip material.



J. BUCHANAN.

REEL FOR STRIP MATERIAL.

APPLICATION TILED DEG Patented Sept. 15, 1914..

YHE NORRIS PETER cw PIIUIO I 1mm. WASHINGTON u r UNI E sTAT s rnTENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. BUCHANAN, or WATERBUEY, CoNNEoTICUT, ASSIGNOR To THE NARROW FABRIC ConPoRATIoN, or ORANGE, CONNECTICUT, a CORPORATION.

REEL FOR STRIP MATERIAL;

Specification of llctters Patent. a Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Application filed Decembcrl, 19 13. Seria1 N9-803B3 i I the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawlngs, and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, 1n-- Figure 1 a plan view of a reel for strip material constructed in accordance w th my invention, a portion of the upper disk be ing broken away and one of the clips bemg shown in section. Fig. 2 a view of the reel in side elevation. Fig. 3 an enlarged, broken central sectional view on the line w -b of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 a broken inside view of the upper disk looking upward, and showing the handle-strap in transverse section. Fig. 5 a reverse perspective view of one of the centering washers. Fig. 6 a broken reverse plan view of the center of the reel, showing the positioning-washer applied to the outer face of the lower disk and held in place by the lower ends of the handle-strap. Fig. 7 a detached sectional view of the spool, showin the embedding of the edges of the handle-strap at opposite points in the walls of its central opening.

My invention relates to an improvement in the reel for strip material, shown and described in United States Patent N 0. 1,029,212 granted June 11, 1912, to Roswell A. Moore and A. S. Sutclifie, the object being to improve the appearance and durability of the said patented reel which is designed, in particular, for use in shipping and retailing narrow elastic webbing, tapes, ribbons, 620.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a reel for strip material, having ing certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a spool. 2 made of wood or equivalent material having a central hole 3 and a radial slot 4. The said slot 4 provides for the engagement with the spool of the inner end 5 of the strip material 6 which is coiled upon the periphery of the spool as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1. The strip material is confined between and protected by an upper disk7 and a lower disk 8 preferably made of pasteboard. These disks are respectively appliedto the opposite ends of the spool upon which they are centered and held in place by means of two corresponding struckup positioningwashers 9, each formed with a peripheral band 10, with a central handle slot 11, and with two in- "wardly extending inclined centering fingers 12 located opposlte each other in a line at a right angle to the length of the said slot.

The disks and 8 are held in place against the respective ends of the spool 2 by means of the said washers 9 which are clamped down upon the outer faces of the disks by means of a handle-stra 13 consisting of a piece of sheet-metal f0 ded upon itself and bent midway of itsends to form a loop 14 for the reception of a wire-handle 15 in the form of a loop.

In assembling the reel, the disks 7 and 8 are first applied to the ends of the spool 2 after which the washers 9 are applied to the outer faces of the disks. The strap 13 is then passed downward through the slot 11 of the upper washer 9 into the hole 3 of the spool 2, until the loop 14 of the strap is brought to a bearing upon the said upper Washer at points alongside the slot 11. The lower ends of the strap pass thence downward through the hole 3 and throughthe slot 11 in the lower washer 9 and are then bent outward at right angles in opposite directlons to form retaining-fingers 16. The strap itself is slightly wider than the diameter of the said hole 3 so that the edges of the strap are crowded into the walls of the hole at opposite oints therein as shown in Fig. 7, whereby the strap is prevented from rotating with respect to the spool. The upper and lower disks 7 and 8 are formed, as shown, with central, circular openings 17 slightly larger in diameter, by preference, than the central hole 3 of the spool. When the parts are assembled, as described, the inwardly extending positioning fingers 12 of the respective washers, pass through the holes 17 in the disks, as shown in Fig. 3, and form abutments, as it were, for the edges of the said openings 17, whereby the disks are positioned and centered and prevented from lateral displacement in the direction of the said fingers as well as prevented from lateral displacement in the opspool; washers concentrically applied to the The outeredgesof the disks, as shown, are

united by means of metal clips 1 8 which may be of any approved 'construction.

" I. claim- In are'el for strip material, the'conibina-f tioii with a Spool aving a "central 1101s, f

relatively large disksa'pplied to the respec tive ends of the spool and formed with central openings concentric with the hole in the do ing oftliispatent ohtai ned for outer faces of the respective disks and each formed with a handle-slotg and with apair of positioningfingers, extending jjIltO the central openings of the disks and forming abutnients for centering the same, a handle strap passing through the spool and through h Q fih ii and s end of the said strap.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this handle applied to one slots of the respective washers for, binding specification in the presence of two subscrib iiig witnesses. I H g r g JOHN J. BUCHANAN. 'Witri ss'es: i

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